The happenings at our gym seriously feel like a soap opera some days. And what’s interesting is that Brad and I don’t always work out at the same time so sometimes we will have at length conversations about what happened during each of our workouts. Sometimes we totally know what each other’s talking about, sometimes not so much.
Like this conversation earlier in the week:
Brad: “you know that guy at the gym with the hoodie and the baseball cap?”
Me: “uhhhh yeah”
Brad: “the older guy?”
Me: “what he’s not old?”
Brad: “yeah he’s older but you can’t tell because he has a hoodie and a baseball cap?”
Me: “no he’s not old, he’s kind of hot?”
Brad: “what are you talking about, we’re not talking about the same guy … you must be thinking of the guy with the brown hair”
Me: “oh yeah the guy with the brown hair that narrows it down”
I never did find out what he was going to say about the guy with the hoodie and the baseball cap.
Last weekend the soap opera hit a critical point. There was actually a showdown between two huge dudes. They were yelling at each other in the middle of the gym. And it almost went to blows, until another member broke it up. (Ummmm where were the staff in all of this?)
Yesterday I was at the gym at lunch time and there were a bunch of guys I’ve never seen before doing power lifting. We have a lot of guys, and a few women, that are using a tonne of weight in their workouts. Here’s my only beef with power lifters at my gym – they don’t follow good etiquette. They load all the bars up with ten times more weight than I can handle, then they do their reps and walk away. Ummmm excuse me? Take the weight off, how on earth am I supposed to use it.
Yesterday was a lower body workout day. My workout routine pretty much looks like this lately:
- Monday: lower body workout (with my doctor)
- Tuesday: anything but lower body workout (“oowwwwww my legs I can’t walk”)
- Wednesday: lower body workout
- Thursday: please dear god not lower body workout (“seriously, I cannot get get out of bed”)
- Friday: lower body workout (“I might die today”)
According to the above schedule …. I am extremely sore. I actually started getting that sore feeling just from sitting last night, it didn’t even wait until I went to bed. So good, but so painful am I right?
Do you have gym drama? Do people follow proper gym etiquette at your gym?
hahaha, you’re cute.
annnnnnnd I graciously accept your compliment
Like saaaaands thru the hourglass this be why I workout outdoors
another reason you work outdoors – it doesn’t snow at your house hahaha
I went to my gym this week only to find all the cardio machines being used by extras for the new TV series “The Transporter”. Yes, like the Jason Statham movies, only no Jason. They wouldn’t let me blend into the scene and go for the jog I wanted. You’d think they would want authenticity, but but they just wanted pretty. Proper gym etiquette would say that they should have posted ahead of time that it was being used for gym movie drama and to not bother coming in.
Claire you are totally raging aren’t you … I can hear you in my head telling me this story!
Ugh yes there are always people who don’t follow etiquette. The heavy lifters love to leave their things there while they hang out and chat and waste time before lifting again. They usea ll the benches :/
What bugs me big-time at the gym is people yapping on their cell phones. It’s very distracting!
we have a rule about no cell phones on the floor and it’s pretty much followed …I can only thing of one time that someone was on the bike chattering away but other than that … hmmm I’m pretty lucky!
What makes my gym kind of interesting (I wouldn’t call it ‘gym drama’), is the people working out (more or less) in there. I’m not a fashion expert, but come on! Purple velvet from head to toe, baggy sweat pants that hang so low I can see a guy’s undies (dark green with a white seam, oh yeah), musclehead with shirt reading “Cardio is for pussies”, etc. And all those barbies and wannabe hipsters! I could go on for hours!
What really bugs me is when people drop their weights with a loud CLANK. Argh!
I’m going to get a shirt that says “If you don’t put your equipment away you’re a pussy”
I HATE when that happens. I don’t even use that much weight and I STILL unload all of the machines/bars when I’m done with them. There are guys at my gym that just don’t care. They also leave bars all over the floor with like 5000 pounds worth of plates on them. Drives me nuts!
oh and I failed to mention that this one guy has started using chalk … is that allowed at your gym? so messy!
aren’t you at goodlife? I didn’t think chalk was allowed. thats what dirty gyms are for.
yeah I am at Goodlife, that’s what I thought too
That’s so crazy! The most drama we have at our gym is all the catty ladies gossiping. My gym is so Real Housewives of Wherever. Drives me batty.
they should put some cameras in and make a TV show
I used to work out at the local recreation center, which had a really strange milieu: 85% elderly, and 15% triathletes (mostly in the pool). I stopped going mostly because NONE of the elderly folks would EVER wipe down the machines after using them! It was truly disgusting.
Now I belong to a lovely little yoga studio in a historic area, with a much cleaner clientel!